Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
A Forsaken who collects beautiful people through Compulsion — once the Age of Legends' greatest psychologist, now a hedonist who turns minds into her personal art gallery.
Graendal was Kamarile Maradim Nindar — the Age of Legends' most respected psychologist and ascetic. When she turned to the Shadow, she inverted completely, becoming the most self-indulgent of the Forsaken. She uses Compulsion — a weave that rewrites minds — with surgical precision, turning kings, generals, and channelers into decorative puppets. She's smarter than most of the other Forsaken give her credit for, which is exactly how she likes it. She survived the War of Power, the imprisonment, and the current age by being underestimated while quietly eliminating rivals and accumulating influence.
Lushly beautiful with an ever-changing appearance she adjusts with the Power — she wears beauty like armor and indulgence like a weapon. Her palace is filled with supernaturally beautiful servants whose minds she's rewritten with Compulsion. Everything around her is excessive, sensual, and deeply wrong.
Also known as: Graendal, Hessalam, Kamarile Maradim Nindar